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As a follow up: I think keeping these two questions separate is important: 1) Is what computers produce art? is It very good? Poor? Can it evoke genuine responses from people interacting with it? 2) Is using art as training data a fair use? Must compensation be provided for such use? TomB

So … the question here is whether using an image in training data is fair use. Generally, looking at another’s work to get ideas is fair use. Making a direct copy is not. Then, is training from a work like a person looking over a work, or is it more like making a photocopy? I would tend to...

Additional text omitted. This is very probably false, while it may be a current limitation. Indeed, the example of AlphaGo, which did initially train on the historical go record, but then was retrained entirely by playing itself, provides a counter factual. I suspect hindrances to AI art are...

Additional text omitted. A change of process does not conclusively change the result. I think a much deeper analysis and discussion are necessary. Certainly, computers process information differently than biological creatures. I rather don’t think that is a sufficient reason to categorically...

Bold added by me. This, I think, is highly debatable. Perhaps a discussion for another thread. TomB

Oh! I was commenting on whether I thought these were objects, not whether they could be repaired. Repair requires an undamaged state. I agree that that is not well defined for an iceberg. (But what if I carve a staircase in a section of ice of the iceberg, and one of the steps Is chipped...

Ice on a lake, no. But an iceberg, yes. Frozen ice on a birdbath, yes. An ice cube, yes. A snowflake, yes. A layer of snow on a yard, no. A snowball, yes. I don’t this is a great example. Ice is approximately a continuous material, like water, air, or sand, and one has the ambiguity of...

And we run into the problem of actual physics vs use of language in physically imprecise ways. This is not unique to the mending spell. Let's modify the example: A single 10 yard ball of yarn (which fits in less than a 1' cube) is used to create a small (less than 1' square) cloth. During...

Yeah, I was thinking that, but it's only the initial casting of the spell that cares about the target's intelligence. I don't see any restriction on stunned which prevents a creation with an intelligence of 1-2 from being stunned. TomB

Can an unconscious creature have the stunned condition? I thought about using Feeblemind to reduce the creatures intelligence, but I don’t think that would remove the condition. A superset of this question is discussed here...

An example for purposes of discussion: --- The player characters are from Town X, which has an esteemed local hero whom is universally known and admired. The hero has particular ties to two of the PCS: One of the characters is the nephew of the hero, with the hero being an accepted role...

I really like Loki, which is about the multiverse. I think Quantumania is meh. It’s about the multiverse, too. I’m thinking Loki is just better made. QM suffers in many ways: Jarring takes. Mis-used graphics — which are badly attached to the character images. No time given to settle in to...

A lot of games have simple play loops, where the PCs are simply vehicles for the players to engage in core mechanics: Enter a location. Encounter and overcome challenges. Discover loot and gain abilities. Repeat. No real PC motivation is there, it's entirely the player having fun with the...

My take is that over-monetization was determined to be profit losing. Sure, charge more. But if too many customers are lost, profits will end up less. This is basic supply/demand stuff. I expect a key missing component to the strategy is increasing demand. Say, creating a new product space...

There’s too much here for me to respond to it in detail. Re: “accept” vs “agree”, yes, I used the wrong word. But, that doesn’t take away my question: How to fit “Contributors grant” to “sub-license”. That’s the key question, which has still not been addressed. Re: “consequence”. You have...

Sure, I’ll go with this. Anyways, it’s largely besides the point. My core question was about how section 4 works and how understand how the ”Contributors grant” text fits with the “sub-licenses” text that appears elsewhere. Despite my failure to detail the section 4 mechanism, I’m still left...

Yes. But, the SRD did not become OGC as a part of WotC accepting a license agreement. The SRD became open content by WotC presenting it as OGC. I‘m thinking I’m being too loose: Typically, content becomes a part of OGC be being marked as such as a part of using other OGC, using the OGL. I...

Then, B accepting the OGL[WXA] means B accepting the offer of OGL[WXA]. Here, I presume that the license which is created by section 4, which copies all of the terms of the OGL, is not just a license but is also a license agreement which A must offer. As a consequence of accepting this offer...

Except, how does the SRD become OGC? W (meaning, WotC) does not use any license agreement to make the SRD open content. The discussion (this thread) previously established Contributors are publishers of OGC, that WotC is a contributor (otherwise, how does the SRD become material for section...

Is this a proper description of your example? (I'm finding two paths by which B obtains licenses. I think both paths are possible, but I'm not sure. I'm not sure they are meaningfully different, although, my hunch is that the existence of the second path is very important.) --- W owns X A...